Current Affairs

July 18, 2008

Big bold dreams for the planet from Al Gore...Inconvenient? Perhaps. But so are high gas prices.

An excerpt from the speech:

Like a lot of people, it seems to me that all these problems are
bigger than any of the solutions that have thus far been proposed for
them, and that's been worrying me...

Yet when we look at all three of these seemingly intractable challenges at the same time, we can see the common thread running
through them, deeply ironic in its simplicity: our dangerous over-reliance on carbon-based fuels is at the core of
all three of these challenges—the economic, environmental and national security crises.

We're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the planet. Every bit of
that's got to change...

But if we grab hold of that common thread and pull it hard,
all of these complex problems begin to unravel and we will find that
we're holding the answer to all of them right in our hand.